On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Such attitude is dying out.
>
> Modern devices almost entirely force people into top-posting and
> almost all people new to mailing-lists will have no idea about the
> possibility of doing anything other than top-posting. Some allow
> users to reconfigure their devices to bottom-post but it's beyond most
> users.
That doesn't mean they can't/shouldn't learn.
>
> Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such
> which office workers really do not have time for. it might have been
> a better system but we let MS dictate how we do emailing and now we
> have to live with that or accept increasing unpopularity.
I really hope you don't mean that trimming is a waste of time. Ever see
a reply to a digest message that quoted the whole digest. What fun.
>
> Hopefully this mailing list helps people learn that bottom posting is
> widely used in Open Source projects and helps them become more
> familiar with doing so. Other successful gateway projects also use
> top-posting a lot, for example Firefox, Ubuntu and others. Ones that
> remain unpopular or have a hard time attracting new people (such as
> Evolution) insist on bottom posting and sees almost all enquirers
> leave rather than become involved. It is sad but we kinda have to
> live with the way things are rather than the way we might prefer them
> to be.
That outlook would mean that we (US) would still be under British rule.
Tell it to any country that has overthrown an autocratic ruler.
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